Courtney (in red), is getting married at the end of October. We kicked off her bachelorette party at a suite at the Smyth Tribeca, popping the champagne and blasting T&C's Ultimate Bachelorette Partysoundtrack.

We got this custom made banner from Etsy shop Hawthorneave. The name of Courtney's future husband is John and her nickname is Coco. Our friends used the hashtag all night—it was so fun to search the hashtag Sunday morning to discover all of the photos from the party.

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The Braid-y Bunch.

We all got our hair braided at the braid bar at John Barrett Salon. The updos and ponytails the stylists created were amazing. It was so convenient to get our hair out of our faces for our upcoming cooking adventure.

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Welcome to Haven's Kitchen.

Since I've known Courtney, she has been a cooking machine. On Sunday mornings during our senior year in college, while the rest of us were still in bed, she was making steak frites and blue cheese souffles. We knew that a typical bachelorette party wouldn't cut it, so we decided on going to the most innovative cooking school in NYC, Haven's Kitchen. Our cooking class was tapas inspired.

While we are all a bit squeamish to hear we were braising octopus, we had to do it. This is David Mahwinney, the Executive Chef at Haven's Kitchen and our cooking instructor for the night. He lifted this multi-legged creature and then taught us how to braise him (the end result was positively delicious).

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Cooking up some papas bravas.

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Putting the finishing touches on the plum flan tart.

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Dinner is served.

We sat down to a large table and indulged in a fresh and delicious meal of pulpo (octopus), shrimp, papas bravas, meat balls, chickpeas with chorizo, delicious Spanish wine and more.

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Plum flan tart.

We ended the night with something sweet and then returned to our suite for a midnight on demand viewing of The Bling Ring.

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